12 Oct
2015
12 Oct
'15
2:55 p.m.
I was just speaking with a guy who works in the physics department at
work (A large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card
for some purpose, which I was able to find for him in my pile-o-stuff.
It turns out he's trying to revive one of their VMS machines which
didn't come back after a power outage a couple weeks ago. Then I learn
that they're still using a VAX to run their freakin' particle
accelerator, I asked if I could see that stuff in action. So, I'm going
to go over for a tour sometime in the next couple weeks. :)
He also mentioned that they're starting to transition off the old DEC
hardware -- this is also my chance to be sure it doesn't just end up in
the bin.
--Jason
12 Oct
12 Oct
3:27 p.m.
I have a good idea who this is would you please tell him Sue says hi!
thanks,
On Oct 12, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe <jason at
smbfc.net> wrote:
I was just speaking with a guy who works in the physics department at work (A large State
University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card for some purpose, which I was able to
find for him in my pile-o-stuff.
It turns out he's trying to revive one of their VMS machines which didn't come
back after a power outage a couple weeks ago. Then I learn that they're still using
a VAX to run their freakin' particle accelerator, I asked if I could see that stuff in
action. So, I'm going to go over for a tour sometime in the next couple weeks. :)
He also mentioned that they're starting to transition off the old DEC hardware --
this is also my chance to be sure it doesn't just end up in the bin.
--Jason
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Sue.Skonetski at vmssoftware.com
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Mobile: +1 (603) 494-9886
Mit freundlichen Gr??en ? Avec mes meilleures salutations
3:27 p.m.
Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe <jason at smbfc.net> wrote:
I was just speaking with a guy who works in the
physics department at work
(A large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card for some
purpose, which I was able to find for him in my pile-o-stuff.
It turns out he's trying to revive one of their VMS machines which didn't
come back after a power outage a couple weeks ago. Then I learn that
they're still using a VAX to run their freakin' particle accelerator, I
asked if I could see that stuff in action. So, I'm going to go over for a
tour sometime in the next couple weeks. :)
He also mentioned that they're starting to transition off the old DEC
hardware -- this is also my chance to be sure it doesn't just end up in the
bin.
--Jason
8:19 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
Cool! I know of at least one "large state
university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Please don't CC: both cctalk and cctech.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
8:33 p.m.
Oh, sorry, normally I prune it when that happens but it must have slipped
by ... they have us using GMail here at U-M and it's not my favorite mail
client ... I will also lay the blame for my lack of inline quoting at the
feet of same; GMail makes a total hash of it.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us>
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on
Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Please don't CC: both cctalk and cctech.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
14 Oct
14 Oct
8:37 a.m.
On 13 October 2015 at 02:33, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
I will also lay the blame for my lack of inline
quoting at the
feet of same; GMail makes a total hash of it.
No it doesn't; it works perfectly.
Either hit Ctrl-A to expand all, then trim as required, or if that's
too hard, go into Settings and the Labs tab and enable:
?Quote selected text
Ryan A
Quote the text you have selected when you reply to a message. (Now
works with the mouse too!)
?
It does proper quoting as well or better than any offline MUA. I'm
using it right now.
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12 Oct
12 Oct
8:37 p.m.
If he needs any parts, let me know.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe <jason at smbfc.net> wrote:
I was just speaking with a guy who works in the
physics department at work
(A large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card for some
purpose, which I was able to find for him in my pile-o-stuff.
It turns out he's trying to revive one of their VMS machines which didn't
come back after a power outage a couple weeks ago. Then I learn that
they're still using a VAX to run their freakin' particle accelerator, I
asked if I could see that stuff in action. So, I'm going to go over for a
tour sometime in the next couple weeks. :)
He also mentioned that they're starting to transition off the old DEC
hardware -- this is also my chance to be sure it doesn't just end up in the
bin.
--Jason
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